Good News TRAI wins the tariff order case against Star in Supreme Court

[Raja321]

GST too is a burden for us. Reduce it to 8% from 18%

It may not happen but, it may come to 14-15% in few months after stabilization

No more 12%, 18% GST slab? Here’s what FM Jaitley says could happen

 

[Raja321]

It may not happen but, it may come to 14-15% in few months after stabilization. India need not require sudden jerks of reducing taxes as it will lead unsuitability it should be done slowly.

No more 12%, 18% GST slab? Here’s what FM Jaitley says could happen

 

[Siva]

Latest press release

Press Release on The simple way of selecting TV channels under new tariff framework.

 

[Siva]

Watch at 9:30 minutes for the answer on 15 percent rule!!

Feb 1 deadline Won’t Be Extended: TRAI Chairman

 

[suanlian]

Note: The new ₹ 130 (max) NCF impacts both DTH and Cable TV industries. So I'm posting this topic here on the DTH forum because I found it to be more active. But it covers the Cable TV industry too.

I've read here in this forum and other places on the internet, including TRAI's own official Twitter post, people are mostly angry with this mandatory NCF. As it turns out, subscription prices seems to be higher now as compare to the previous pricing methods. And it seems everyone is blaming this NCF to be the reason for the higher subscription price. "Look my subscription price was ₹ 200 before and it is ₹ 400 now! F*** this NCF. F*** TRAI," everyone seems to be shouting and cursing everywhere.

But is the higher price really because of the NCF? Please share your thoughts below.

 

[suanlian]

Let me be the first one to share:

In this interview here

Source
, RS Sharma, Chairman, TRAI says that the NCF is like rental charges.

Yes. I agree with him. We pay rental charges for our electric connection, mobile connection and many other service we enjoy today. Without the NCF, how do you expect your Cable Company to provide the service you are enjoying today? From which source will they lay and maintain cables, fibers, amplifier and many other costly equipments through which you are enjoying your TV currently? Especially for a number of LCO's they are running Local Channels and producing Local News. These also requires a substiantial amount of recurring expenditure as it requires extra manpower, apart from techicians/engineers already employed by your service providers. Without the NCF, from which source are they going to pay the salaries of their employees? For DTH service providers, the rental of even one satellite transponder is extremely high apart from many other investments required to serve you.

Many are suggesting an NCF of ₹ 0, ₹ 10, ₹ 20, ₹ 50, etc. And we already see that DTH providers are waving or discounting the NCF. It may work for player who have lakhs and lakhs of subsribers. But there are many LCO's with a few thousand subsribers or even less. I feel it's extremely important for them to charge the full NCF for them to survive now.

So what's the real reason of higher gross subcription fee now?

For me, I put the blame on the broadcasters. They have priced almost all of ther premium channels at the max rate of ₹ 19 when subcribed individually whereas they are priced much much less when taken as a bouquet or pack, bundled with many other non popular channels. This defeats the very purpose of TRAI's New Tariff/Television Regime/Order/Framework (whaterver) where TRAI envision that a subscriber can do away with those channels which they don't want to watch and pay for only what they want to watch. This should also bring down the total subscription fee. However the outcome seem to have the opposite as broadcasters started to bundle large number of channels, even charging for channels which were previously free, and forcing them on to consumers saying they offers better ROI. In the above interview, TRAI's Chairman compared this to going to a store to buy a soap, but the shopkeeper forcing you to buy a bundle consisting of the soap you want with other goods which you initially don't plan on purchancing. Well I won't go further as to why broadcasters bundles. Will leave it for others to discuss.

Let me close by listing below all channels I could come up with, which cost the maximum ceiling of ₹ 19:

&flix HD ₹ 19.00
&pictures HD ₹ 19.00
&prive HD ₹ 19.00
&TV HD ₹ 19.00
Asianet ₹ 19.00
Asianet HD ₹ 19.00
Colors ₹ 19.00
Colors HD ₹ 19.00
Colors Kannada ₹ 19.00
Colors Kannada HD ₹ 19.00
Colors Marathi HD ₹ 19.00
ETV HD ₹ 19.00
Gemini Movies HD ₹ 19.00
Gemini Music HD ₹ 19.00
Gemini TV ₹ 19.00
Gemini TV HD ₹ 19.00
Jalsha Movies HD ₹ 19.00
JAYA TV - HD ₹ 19.00
KTV ₹ 19.00
KTV HD ₹ 19.00
Maa HD ₹ 19.00
Maa Movies HD ₹ 19.00
Maa TV ₹ 19.00
SAB ₹ 19.00
SAB HD ₹ 19.00
SET ₹ 19.00
SET HD ₹ 19.00
SIX HD ₹ 19.00
Star Bharat HD ₹ 19.00
Star Jalsha ₹ 19.00
Star Jalsha HD ₹ 19.00
Star Movies HD ₹ 19.00
Star Plus ₹ 19.00
Star Plus HD ₹ 19.00
Star Sports 1 ₹ 19.00
Star Sports 1 HD Hindi ₹ 19.00
Star Sports 1 Hindi ₹ 19.00
Star Sports 1 Kannada * ₹ 19.00
Star Sports 1 Telugu * ₹ 19.00
Star Sports HD1 ₹ 19.00
Star Sports HD2 ₹ 19.00
Star Sports Select 1 ₹ 19.00
Star Sports Select HD1 ₹ 19.00
Star Suvarna ₹ 19.00
Star Suvarna HD ₹ 19.00
Sun Music HD ₹ 19.00
Sun TV ₹ 19.00
Sun TV HD ₹ 19.00
Surya TV HD ₹ 19.00
TEN 1 ₹ 19.00
TEN 1 HD ₹ 19.00
Udaya TV HD ₹ 19.00
Vijay HD ₹ 19.00
Zee Bangla ₹ 19.00
Zee Bangla HD ₹ 19.00
Zee Café HD ₹ 19.00
Zee Cinema ₹ 19.00
Zee Cinema HD ₹ 19.00
Zee Kannada ₹ 19.00
Zee Kannada HD ₹ 19.00
Zee Marathi ₹ 19.00
Zee Marathi HD ₹ 19.00
Zee Sarthak ₹ 19.00
Zee Talkies HD ₹ 19.00
Zee Tamil HD ₹ 19.00
Zee Telugu ₹ 19.00
Zee Telugu HD ₹ 19.00
Zee Tv ₹ 19.00
Zee TV HD ₹ 19.00

As per my calculation, the above channels adds to ₹ 1311. ONLY.

 

[pnkrenjith]

Not 19, they asking 22.42 for each addition

 

[vpz]

₹1311+₹235.98 GST = ₹1546.98

 

[Bishnu15]

Please dont forget its Rs 19 + applicable taxes. So total Rs 23 per channel if we round off.

 

[amty]

dishtv is charging rs200 odd for 143 channels as NCF its really crap rule....